When U.S. Army Lt. James H. Simpson and his guide Carravahal first entered Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, during an 1849 military expedition, they were so awed by the remains of one enormous structure that they named it Pueblo Bonito, meaning “Beautiful Town.” Subsequent excavations revealed around 650 rooms within Pueblo Bonito, including burials packed with thousands of pieces of jewelry.
New DNA analysis of human remains within the burials reveals a prehistoric matrilineal dynasty, where lineage, birthright and social status were traced through the mother’s ancestry rather than the father’s, as is common in patriarchal societies. Researchers believe the elite women-centered dynasty lasted for 330 years, from 800 to 1130 A.D.
The findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, represent the first time that DNA and archaeological analysis have documented hereditary relationships among individuals within an elite lineage in the absence of a written record. Read more.
it’s so crazy when white vegans compare eating meat to slavery and genocide cuz 1 y'alls people are the reason why everything is the way it is including the meat industry and how it operates 2 yalls people are the main ones enslaving and mass murdering people all up and down history 3 it tells me that you look at the genocide and slavery of just non white people in history and think that our pain is on the same level as some damn animals which 4 tells me you view non white peoples as animals which is common mindset in white supremacists and why they can kill us without feeling bad.
The sad thing is many of them treat animals better than minorities.
woah buddy. that’s, that’s really racist and rude goddamn.
yeah white people are really rude and racist you right :)
I’m deeply sorry, but that’s racist. You’re racist against whites. Not all whites are supremacists and racist. One of my irl best friends are black.
oh you have one black friend? you didn’t hear? the requirement was raised to 7 black friends and they all have to sign the MWFINR (my white friend is not racist) form 7753. do you have the proper paper work? otherwise you’re a racist still :/
Please tell me that you’re joking.
I don’t joke about the regulations. An email was sent out June 23nd 2015 and monthly after that. If you did not follow the instructions clearly detailed in the email then that is your fault. You are still a racist in the database and will be until you get these forms turned in and processed. -Thank you Management
The f-ck? Never heard about that… I never got anything about that in my email, and isn’t being racist or not an opinionated and personal thing, not some sort of signed paper? There’s a database?
The email was sent out and confirmed delivered by our specialists. The deadline for the MWFINR form 7753 is December 17th, 2016 so we advise you to hurry and gather the forms and signatures. Please remember to have your black friends sign in blue or black ink in the corresponding areas marked clearly on the form. Failure to do so will render your application null, meaning you will be a racist in our database until the next cycle
A Swedish woman hitting a neo-Nazi protester with her handbag. The woman was reportedly a concentration camp survivor. [1985]
Volunteers learn how to fight fires at Pearl Harbor [c. 1941 - 1945]
Maud Wagner, the first well-known female tattoo artist in the U.S. [1907]
A 106-year old Armenian woman protecting her home with an AK-47. [1990]
Komako Kimura, a prominent Japanese suffragist at a march in New York. [October 23, 1917]
Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer of the Apollo Project, standing next to the code she wrote by hand that was used to take humanity to the moon. [1969]
Erika, a 15-year-old Hungarian fighter who fought for freedom against the Soviet Union. [October 1956]
Sarla Thakral, 21 years old, the first Indian woman to earn a pilot license. [1936]
Voting activist Annie Lumpkins at the Little Rock city jail. [1961] (freakin’ immaculate)
Now with more awesomesauce!
Female pilots leaving their B-17, “Pistol Packin’ Mama” [c. 1941 - 1945]
The first basketball team from Smith college. [1902]
Filipino guerilla, Captain Nieves Fernandez, shows a US soldier how she killed Japanese soldiers during the occupation. [1944]
Afghani medical students. [1962] (man, screw fundamentalism.)
A British sergeant training members of the ‘mum’s army’ Women’s Home Defence Corps during the Battle of Britain. [1940]
and just to wrap up…
Nina Simone, one of the most talented vocalists of the 20th century.
In a column for the Guardian on Monday, American writer Francine Prose called for a “nonviolent national general strike” to demonstrate “how many of us there are, how strong and committed we are, how much we can accomplish.”
She wrote: “Let’s designate a day on which no one (that is, anyone who can do so without being fired) goes to work, a day when no one shops or spends money, a day on which we truly make our economic and political power felt.”
Calls to do just that have been circulating online recently, with activists setting Feb. 17 — the Friday before President’s Day — as the day for a #nationalstrike against the presidency of Donald Trump. Read more
Land totaling the size of Connecticut has been targeted in a new bill
in the Republican House, uniting hunters and conservationists in
opposition
Chaffetz, a Tea Party Republican,
claimed that the 3.3m acres of national land served “no purpose for taxpayers”.
The 10 states affected are Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana,
Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming.
House Bill 621
Now that Republicans have quietly drawn a path to give away much of Americans’ public land, US representative Jason Chaffetz of Utah has introduced what the Wilderness Society is calling “step two” in the GOP’s plan to offload federal property.
The new piece of legislation would direct the interior secretary to
immediately sell off an area of public land the size of Connecticut. In a
press release for House Bill 621, Chaffetz, a Tea Party Republican,
claimed that the 3.3m acres of national land, maintained by the Bureau
of Land Management (BLM), served “no purpose for taxpayers”.
But many in the 10 states that would lose federal land in the bill
disagree, and public land rallies in opposition are bringing together
environmentalists and sportsmen across the west.
Hey guys, FYI, 621 and 622 are new enough that your congressman may not have a stance on them yet - and that being the case, it’s a lot easier to weigh in because they won’t be retracting anything (as everyone knows, most Republicans are the kind of dumb that doubles down).
I just called mine and the fellow I spoke to hadn’t even heard of it yet (and thus continued to treat me like a person rather than an annoyance), so this is a good time to call and say DON’T YOU FUCKING DARE to them.
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